Wto in a sentence

The European Union bought a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruling that the export ban was a breach of WTO trade rules.

Yes, if the subsidies are duplicative and are absolute violations of WTO rules,” Jennifer Hillman, a Georgetown University professor and a former WTO appellate body member, said in an interview.

At the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference in Geneva in 2022, WTO members had approved a decision to exempt the WFP’s humanitarian food purchases from export restrictions.

Side agreements at the WTO and preferential free trade agreements with nations like the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Georgia, Switzerland and Kenya can help lay the foundation for economic prosperity while we wait for the WTO to get its act together.

In the long-term, as a member of the WTO, and as party to various FTAs, course correction with regard to formulating WTO- and FTA-compliant incentives and subsidies is inevitable.

The US has said that the WTO uses "an outdated dichotomy between developed and developing countries that has allowed some WTO members to gain unfair advantages".

The US has submitted its suggestions to the WTO which states that self-declaration puts the WTO on a path to failed negotiations and it is also a path to institutional irrelevance.

Yes, Britain is a signatory to the WTO in its own right – but there are no WTO terms that apply specifically to the UK, as we have been operating under the EU’s umbrella for decades.

Before embarking on further agricultural negotiations, the United States has called on WTO members to implement the existing WTO agreements and decisions they have already agreed to.

China pledged to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO), an admittedly laughable gesture given the country’s lack of respect for copyright law — and, well, human rights, but that’s unrelated to the WTO.

Second, we are following and respecting the WTO rules because we are the one who contributed to the creation of the WTO, and we think it makes sense to respect the rule you decided to create.

Unlike Trump, the Obama White House had touted US successes in opening foreign markets to US exports by winning favorable WTO decisions and advertised the fact that the Obama administration had won every WTO case it brought.

We call on all members to oppose such WTO inconsistent measures, stand by their commitments undertaken in the WTO and rollback such measures of a discriminatory and restrictive nature.

B. Hoekman, The WTO: Functions and Basic Principles, 44 The WTO system tries also to improve predictability and stability, discouraging the use of quotas and other measures used to set limits on quantities of imports.

Most recently, at the fifteenth general assembly in 2003, the WTO general council and the UN agreed to establish the WTO as a specialized agency of the UN.

S. Panitchpakdi, The WTO at ten, 8. WTO members have agreed that, if they believe fellow-members are violating trade rules, they will use the multilateral system of settling disputes instead of taking action unilaterally.

Stewart-Dawyer, The WTO Dispute Settlement System, 7 Dispute settlement is regarded by the WTO as the central pillar of the multilateral trading system, and as a "unique contribution to the stability of the global economy".

Thayil joined forces with former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Gina Mainwal for one show, performing as The No WTO Combo during the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle on December 1, 1999.

The question has not been settled before a WTO judicial body, and, at any rate, these obligations only apply where the respective WTO Member has committed itself to open its basic telecommunications market to competition.

The working party determines the terms and conditions of entry into the WTO for the applicant nation, and may consider transitional periods to allow countries some leeway in complying with the WTO rules.